Re: CFT: new ath hal

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:28:15AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote..
>> I've placed a new hal out for testing.  I'd like to commit it after more
>> folks work with it so feedback would be helpful.
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20061205.tgz
>>
>> There are numerous small bugs fixed in this version but the main change
>> is a split of the descriptor state so that s/w state can be placed in
>> cached memory when h/w state is in uncached memory.  This results in
>> noticeable performance gains on certain architectures.
>>
>> To use this hal you must patch the driver and rate control modules with
>> this:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath-20061205.patch
> 
> Seems to work fine on my laptop:
> 
> ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xd0210000-0xd021ffff at device 4.0 on pci2
> ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:80:48:7e:16:96
> ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
> 
> Anything special you want to have tested?  I use this laptop daily
> so it will see 'runtime' anyway..

I mostly care about regressions.  The code base has been stable for a
while so it's unlikely you'll see any obvious differences.

	Sam